There are people who believe that Islam was spread at the point of a sword. There are even some Muslims, who think that their faith should be forced on others.
Friday, June 21, 2019
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Friday, June 14, 2019
QV17.....Don’t waste your time; surrender to God
As I said in the very beginning, Islam is a path of complete surrender. In a previous post, I gave reasons why we should surrender to God.
This idea of surrender as a chosen and inevitable path, is not something new to Quran or Islam. Even before prophet Muhammad, many ancient great men talked about the same path.
This idea of surrender as a chosen and inevitable path, is not something new to Quran or Islam. Even before prophet Muhammad, many ancient great men talked about the same path.
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Saturday, June 8, 2019
Friday, June 7, 2019
QV15.....We are not responsible for our mistakes
All of us would love to say that. We always want to blame someone else or the circumstances for all our mistakes. Unfortunately, we can’t get away with such excuses all the time!
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
QV14.....What happens when one dies?
I have dealt with this very question earlier, when I discussed various Indian scriptures, whether it is the Upanishads, or the Bhagavad Gita, or even the Buddhist Tipitakas.
Though there are differences in the details, most Indian schools of thought do believe in re-birth – either the soul entering another new body, or the ‘dying consciousness’ of the person getting transmitted to another newly formed body, and resulting in rebirth.
Friday, May 31, 2019
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Monday, May 27, 2019
BookTalk: Five simple grafting techniques
In Today’s book talk, I am going to discuss about my book “Five simple grafting techniques best suited for most exotic fruit plants”.
Friday, May 24, 2019
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Friday, May 17, 2019
QV09.....Importance of prayers
We were discussing the essentials of Islam. The holy Quran lays lot of emphasis on regular prayers or Salat or Namaz as they are called.
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
QV08.....How should we speak?
We were discussing the essentials of Islam. As a third commandment, the holy Quran says –
“Speak fair to the people”.What does ‘fair’ mean? Does it mean speaking sugar coated words as we see nowadays?
Monday, May 13, 2019
BookTalk: Upanishads – A journey into the unknown
In Today’s book talk I am going to discuss about my book “Upanishads – A journey into the unknown”.
The original title for this book that was in mind was – “Upanishads – A journey into the unknowable”. But then I changed it to the current title to avoid sounding a bit oxymoronic! If something is ‘unknowable’, there is no way you can know it!
Friday, May 10, 2019
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
QV06.....Why should one worship only Allah?
Continuing our discussion on the 5 essential commandments of Islam as listed by the Holy Quran, let us now see the second part of the first commandment. Quran says that one should worship Allah and only Allah. It quotes several past incidents when people had worshiped others as God and they were severely punished.
Friday, May 3, 2019
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Essence of Islam
Quran spells out a long list of Do’s and Don't s to be adhered to
by a devout Muslim. Among these I feel the most essential things are
the following.
Monday, April 29, 2019
Friday, April 26, 2019
Show us the way
When you are on a spiritual journey it is important that you know how
to proceed towards your destination. There may be several paths. Some
may be easy, some extremely difficult. And some, that may take you
just in the opposite direction!
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Friday, April 19, 2019
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
We are 'that'!
For the past several episodes, we were discussing how father Uddalaka tries to explain the unity of whole existence to his son Swetaketu.
Uddalaka arrives at his conclusion by systematically following the modern scientific approach – observation, experimentation and reasoning.
Monday, April 15, 2019
Friday, April 12, 2019
Forward reasoning
In the previous episodes, we saw how father Uddalaka traces the origin of the existence by backward reasoning. He continues, to show the same unity among all the existence by forward reasoning as well.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Material things are not everything
In the previous episode, we saw how father Uddalaka traces the origin of all material things to three basic components – Satva, Rajas and Tamas.
Various combinations of these three basic constituents result in various material forms that we see around us.
Our worldly science seems to say that material things are everything. But Upanishads disagree.
Friday, April 5, 2019
Two way inferring
The purpose of the story that we started discussing, namely the story of Uddalaka and Swetaketu was to declare the oneness of ‘everything’.
How do you say two things are same even though they appear to be different?
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
The God can think!
I am just using a catchy title. By God I am referring to that root cause for the existence of this world. The Upanishads refrain from calling it by any name and they just refer to it as ‘Tat’ or ‘Sat’ - literally meaning ‘That’ or ‘Existence’.
Interestingly, many ancient scriptures – whether it is Bible or Quran or even the Upanishads have almost identical definition for God. They define God (or the ‘Tat’ in the Upanishads) as the one from which this world has emerged, the one that sustains whatever exists, and the one into which everything returns.
Interestingly, many ancient scriptures – whether it is Bible or Quran or even the Upanishads have almost identical definition for God. They define God (or the ‘Tat’ in the Upanishads) as the one from which this world has emerged, the one that sustains whatever exists, and the one into which everything returns.
Monday, April 1, 2019
BookTalk: How and why of Yoga
“I read this book with keen interest …. The author has succeeded in providing a comprehensive account on how Yoga can be effectively utilized in alleviating stress in a way common man can understand. The author has critically analyzed the role of mind-body interaction in the genesis of stress, and how Yoga helps in normalizing it…”
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